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From the Editor

TravellerCon/USA 2015 is a mere three months away. Your Humble Editor is
nominally responsible for some of the promotion thereof, though this
spring he’s been somewhat remiss—real life does get in the way,
sometimes. Nevertheless, it is happening, and we do
want you to come.

One obstacle to previous growth has been that our arrangements with the
old site didn’t really allow for gradual growth—and we had really hit
the limit to what we could do without raising the cost to an untenable
level. The current site offers us a bit more flexibility for future
growth. However, to actually manage that growth, we need a few things:
First, we need to see that there’s increasing interest in the con in its
current form. The best way to show that is to come—pre-registration is
open now (see the Con website at
http://www.travellercon-usa.com/)—and
to get friends to come as well. Second, we need to know what you’d like
to see in an expanded con. We’ve had a few ideas mentioned in passing;
what we need is some more concrete elucidation of those ideas, including
some of the implementation details—for example, if you want panel
discussions, we’d want to know on what topics, who you think should be
on the panel(s), and how (and at what cost) we should induce the
panelists to come. If you want to see awards of some sort given out,
what sort of awards (both in the sense of ‘for what’ and ‘what is the
nature of the symbol—and at what cost—of the award’) should we be
looking at. Con-branded swag? Of what sort, and how much would you be
willing to pay? Named guests-of-honor? Who? Why? How do we induce them
to come? What’s in it for them? Other ideas? Tell us about them; use
Freelance Traveller’s feedback address
(feedback@freelancetraveller.com—use a subject line indicating Con
ideas), and we’ll pass them on to the rest of the ConCom. Finally, we
want to know what you’d like to see in the Con at its present size.
Currently, the focus is ‘sit at a table and roll dice’ gaming; is there
anything you can think of that we’re missing for a small (30-odd people)
con? Let us know, also via Freelance Traveller’s
feedback.